package control
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- Public
- Protected
Type Members
- class Breaks extends AnyRef
Provides the
break
control abstraction.Provides the
break
control abstraction.The
break
method uses aControlThrowable
to transfer control up the stack to an enclosingbreakable
.It is typically used to abruptly terminate a
for
loop, but can be used to return from an arbitrary computation.Control resumes after the
breakable
.If there is no matching
breakable
, theBreakControl
thrown bybreak
is handled in the usual way: if not caught, it may terminate the currentThread
.BreakControl
carries no stack trace, so the default exception handler does not print useful diagnostic information; there is no compile-time warning if there is no matchingbreakable
.A catch clause using
NonFatal
is safe to use withbreak
; it will not short-circuit the transfer of control to the enclosingbreakable
.A
breakable
matches a call tobreak
if the methods were invoked on the same receiver object, which may be the convenience valueBreaks
.Example usage:
val mybreaks = new Breaks import mybreaks.{break, breakable} breakable { for (x <- xs) { if (done) break() f(x) } }
Calls to
break
from one instance ofBreaks
will never resume at thebreakable
of some other instance.Any intervening exception handlers should use
NonFatal
, or useTry
for evaluation:val mybreaks = new Breaks import mybreaks.{break, breakable} breakable { for (x <- xs) Try { if (quit) break else f(x) }.foreach(println) }
- abstract class ControlThrowable extends Throwable
A parent class for throwable objects intended for flow control.
A parent class for throwable objects intended for flow control.
Instances of
ControlThrowable
should not normally be caught.As a convenience,
NonFatal
does not matchControlThrowable
.import scala.util.control.{Breaks, NonFatal}, Breaks.{break, breakable} breakable { for (v <- values) { try { if (p(v)) break else ??? } catch { case NonFatal(t) => log(t) // can't catch a break } } }
Suppression is disabled, because flow control should not suppress an exceptional condition. Stack traces are also disabled, allowing instances of
ControlThrowable
to be safely reused.Instances of
ControlThrowable
should not normally have a cause. Legacy subclasses may set a cause usinginitCause
. - trait NoStackTrace extends Throwable
A trait for exceptions which, for efficiency reasons, do not fill in the stack trace.
A trait for exceptions which, for efficiency reasons, do not fill in the stack trace. Stack trace suppression can be disabled on a global basis via a system property wrapper in scala.sys.SystemProperties.
- Note
Since JDK 1.7, a similar effect can be achieved with
class Ex extends Throwable(..., writableStackTrace = false)
Value Members
- object Breaks extends Breaks
An object that can be used for the break control abstraction.
An object that can be used for the break control abstraction.
Example usage:
import Breaks.{break, breakable} breakable { for (...) { if (...) break } }
- object Exception
Classes representing the components of exception handling.
Classes representing the components of exception handling.
Each class is independently composable.
This class differs from scala.util.Try in that it focuses on composing exception handlers rather than composing behavior. All behavior should be composed first and fed to a Catch object using one of the
opt
,either
orwithTry
methods. Taken together the classes provide a DSL for composing catch and finally behaviors.Examples
Create a
Catch
which handles specified exceptions.import scala.util.control.Exception._ import java.net._ val s = "http://www.scala-lang.org/" // Some(http://www.scala-lang.org/) val x1: Option[URL] = catching(classOf[MalformedURLException]) opt new URL(s) // Right(http://www.scala-lang.org/) val x2: Either[Throwable,URL] = catching(classOf[MalformedURLException], classOf[NullPointerException]) either new URL(s) // Success(http://www.scala-lang.org/) val x3: Try[URL] = catching(classOf[MalformedURLException], classOf[NullPointerException]) withTry new URL(s) val defaultUrl = new URL("http://example.com") // URL(http://example.com) because htt/xx throws MalformedURLException val x4: URL = failAsValue(classOf[MalformedURLException])(defaultUrl)(new URL("htt/xx"))
Create a
Catch
which logs exceptions usinghandling
andby
.def log(t: Throwable): Unit = t.printStackTrace val withThrowableLogging: Catch[Unit] = handling(classOf[MalformedURLException]) by (log) def printUrl(url: String) : Unit = { val con = new URL(url) openConnection() val source = scala.io.Source.fromInputStream(con.getInputStream()) source.getLines.foreach(println) } val badUrl = "htt/xx" // Prints stacktrace, // java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: htt/xx // at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:586) withThrowableLogging { printUrl(badUrl) } val goodUrl = "http://www.scala-lang.org/" // Prints page content, // <!DOCTYPE html> // <html> withThrowableLogging { printUrl(goodUrl) }
Use
unwrapping
to create aCatch
that unwraps exceptions before rethrowing.class AppException(cause: Throwable) extends RuntimeException(cause) val unwrappingCatch: Catch[Nothing] = unwrapping(classOf[AppException]) def calcResult: Int = throw new AppException(new NullPointerException) // Throws NPE not AppException, // java.lang.NullPointerException // at .calcResult(<console>:17) val result = unwrappingCatch(calcResult)
Use
failAsValue
to provide a default when a specified exception is caught.val inputDefaulting: Catch[Int] = failAsValue(classOf[NumberFormatException])(0) val candidatePick = "seven" // scala.io.StdIn.readLine() // Int = 0 val pick = inputDefaulting(candidatePick.toInt)
Compose multiple
Catch
s withor
to build aCatch
that provides default values varied by exception.val formatDefaulting: Catch[Int] = failAsValue(classOf[NumberFormatException])(0) val nullDefaulting: Catch[Int] = failAsValue(classOf[NullPointerException])(-1) val otherDefaulting: Catch[Int] = nonFatalCatch withApply(_ => -100) val combinedDefaulting: Catch[Int] = formatDefaulting or nullDefaulting or otherDefaulting def p(s: String): Int = s.length * s.toInt // Int = 0 combinedDefaulting(p("tenty-nine")) // Int = -1 combinedDefaulting(p(null: String)) // Int = -100 combinedDefaulting(throw new IllegalStateException) // Int = 22 combinedDefaulting(p("11"))
- object NoStackTrace extends java.io.Serializable
- object NonFatal
Extractor of non-fatal Throwables.
Extractor of non-fatal Throwables. Will not match fatal errors like
VirtualMachineError
(for example,OutOfMemoryError
andStackOverflowError
, subclasses ofVirtualMachineError
),ThreadDeath
,LinkageError
,InterruptedException
,ControlThrowable
.Note that scala.util.control.ControlThrowable, an internal Throwable, is not matched by
NonFatal
(and would therefore be thrown).For example, all harmless Throwables can be caught by:
try { // dangerous stuff } catch { case NonFatal(e) => log.error(e, "Something not that bad.") // or case e if NonFatal(e) => log.error(e, "Something not that bad.") }
- object TailCalls
Methods exported by this object implement tail calls via trampolining.
Methods exported by this object implement tail calls via trampolining. Tail calling methods have to return their result using
done
or call the next method usingtailcall
. Both return aTailRec
object. The result of evaluating a tailcalling function can be retrieved from aTailrec
value using methodresult
. Implemented as described in "Stackless Scala with Free Monads" http://blog.higher-order.com/assets/trampolines.pdfHere's a usage example:
import scala.util.control.TailCalls._ def isEven(xs: List[Int]): TailRec[Boolean] = if (xs.isEmpty) done(true) else tailcall(isOdd(xs.tail)) def isOdd(xs: List[Int]): TailRec[Boolean] = if (xs.isEmpty) done(false) else tailcall(isEven(xs.tail)) isEven((1 to 100000).toList).result def fib(n: Int): TailRec[Int] = if (n < 2) done(n) else for { x <- tailcall(fib(n - 1)) y <- tailcall(fib(n - 2)) } yield (x + y) fib(40).result
This is the documentation for the Scala standard library.
Package structure
The scala package contains core types like
Int
,Float
,Array
orOption
which are accessible in all Scala compilation units without explicit qualification or imports.Notable packages include:
scala.collection
and its sub-packages contain Scala's collections frameworkscala.collection.immutable
- Immutable, sequential data-structures such asVector
,List
,Range
,HashMap
orHashSet
scala.collection.mutable
- Mutable, sequential data-structures such asArrayBuffer
,StringBuilder
,HashMap
orHashSet
scala.collection.concurrent
- Mutable, concurrent data-structures such asTrieMap
scala.concurrent
- Primitives for concurrent programming such asFutures
andPromises
scala.io
- Input and output operationsscala.math
- Basic math functions and additional numeric types likeBigInt
andBigDecimal
scala.sys
- Interaction with other processes and the operating systemscala.util.matching
- Regular expressionsOther packages exist. See the complete list on the right.
Additional parts of the standard library are shipped as separate libraries. These include:
scala.reflect
- Scala's reflection API (scala-reflect.jar)scala.xml
- XML parsing, manipulation, and serialization (scala-xml.jar)scala.collection.parallel
- Parallel collections (scala-parallel-collections.jar)scala.util.parsing
- Parser combinators (scala-parser-combinators.jar)scala.swing
- A convenient wrapper around Java's GUI framework called Swing (scala-swing.jar)Automatic imports
Identifiers in the scala package and the
scala.Predef
object are always in scope by default.Some of these identifiers are type aliases provided as shortcuts to commonly used classes. For example,
List
is an alias forscala.collection.immutable.List
.Other aliases refer to classes provided by the underlying platform. For example, on the JVM,
String
is an alias forjava.lang.String
.